Undercover officers from the Roseville Police Department posted advertisements on websites frequently used to sell sex last week, officer Dee Dee Gunther said. The would-be clients met their “dates” in Roseville motel rooms on Friday and Saturday, where the johns were briefly detained and issued citations by police.

The 12 people cited in the sting were:

Aaron Boren, 51, Roseville

Joseph Desilvestro, 40, Sacramento

George Ignatius, 37, Roseville

Gregory Kelly Jr., 31, Sacramento

Alicia Lopez, 31, Sacramento

Mario Lopez, 32, Sacramento

Angelo Marks, 33, Citrus Heights

Venkatakrishna Nallaballi, 38, Folsom

Brian Oates, 42, Sacramento

Oscar Ochoa, 25, Folsom

Kevin Steed, 45, Roseville

Aleksey Zamoshnikov, 35, Sacramento

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Each person was cited for soliciting a prostitute, a misdemeanor under state law. The police department also confiscated approximately $2,500 from the johns, which they had intended to use to pay for sex acts.

Roseville police cited 10 people for soliciting a prostitute in a similar sting in August. A man who responded to the police’s ad by offering to drive prostitutes to dates for cash was also arrested on charges of pimping.